If You Are Praying for Help

I called for songs of lament and hope in suffering and found one! I hope this encourages you as it did me.

(Big thank you to Rev. Rich Shields for sending this to me this week.)
Lyrics:
We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long we’d have faith to believe

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not our home
It’s not our home

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

6 Comments

I heard this song for the first time the day after the tornadoes hit here in Alabama last month. I have lost count how many times I have sung it over and over. Maybe it’s my personality, but I am drawn to songs of lament quite often.

Mariposa
on May 28, 2011 at 7:04 pm

My pastor’s wife sang this in church a few weeks ago. This song makes me cry, but I really like it. What a wonderful reminder that God uses ALL things for our good!

Such a wonderful song. It’s now right up there with Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redmond… that’s long been a song that buoyed my heart in the dark seasons. Cry every time I hear it. This one is just as precious and I’m so glad you shared it!

On another totally different note, I’ve been thinking about books I could review here and two came to mind that might be fitting for your style and topics here: Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts or Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies. Both dig into the real stuff of life – good, bad and otherwise. Thoughts?